Updated on 2025/03/07

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MORII YUTA
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science Department of Biology

Degree

  • 博士(生命科学)

  • 修士(生命科学)

  • 学士(理学)

Education

  • Tohoku University   大学院生命科学研究科

    2011.04 2014.12

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    Country: Japan

  • Tohoku University   大学院生命科学研究科

    2009.04 2011.03

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    Country: Japan

  • Shinshu University   理学部   生物科学科

    2005.04 2009.03

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    Country: Japan

Campus Career

  • Hirosaki University   Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science   Department of Biology   Associate Professor  

    2024.04 Now

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Research History

  • Iwate University   大学連合農学研究科   Associate Professor

    2024.10 Now

  • Kyoto University   白眉センター/大学院理学研究科   白眉研究員特定助教

    2020.03 2024.03

  • Massey University   School of Agriculture and Environment   JSPS Overseas Research Fellow

    2018.07 2020.02

  • University of Groningen   Arctic Centre   Guest Researcher

    2017.04 2018.01

  • Hokkaido University   大学院農学研究院   Researcher

    2016.04 2018.06

  • Hokkaido University   大学院農学研究院   非常勤講師

    2015.04 2016.03

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Research Interests

  • Evolution

  • Ecology

  • Phylogeny

  • Malacology

  • Citizen Science

Research Areas

  • Life Science / Ecology and environment

  • Life Science / Biodiversity and systematics

  • Life Science / Evolutionary biology

Professional Memberships

  • Japan Ethological Society

  • The Malacological Society of Japan

  • Ecological Society of Japan

Papers

  • Several new records of the northern-most, eastern-most, and high-altitude areas of Epiophlebia superstes (Selys 1889) in the Japanese archipelago

    Morii Y

    Aquatic Animals   2024 ( 0 )   AA2024-29   2024.11

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    CiNii Research

  • Long term data reveals increase in vehicle collisions of endangered birds in Hokkaido, Japan

    Kobayashi K, Naito AM, Sadakuni T, Morii Y

    Conservation Science and Practice   6 ( 12 )   e13250   2024.10

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    Web of Science

  • The design and management of citizen science: the similarities between Ecology and Economics (in Japanese)

    Morii Y

    Journal of Economics, Business Administration   228   133 - 145   2024.3

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  • The divergence of mobility and activity associated with anti-predator adaptations in land snails

    Morii Y, Kimura R, Sato R, Shiobara N, Maeda H, Nakagawa K, Ito R, Ueki R

    Behaviour   1 - 21   2023

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  • The habitat use and trophic niche comparisons among closely related land snails in Northeast Asia

    Morii Y, Ohkubo Y, Kanaya G, Prozorova L

    Population Ecology   64 ( 4 )   282 - 299   2022.5

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  • Invasive giant slugs vs. innovative great citizens (in Japanese)

    Morii Y

    Japanese Journal of Ecology   71   79 - 84   2021.7

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  • A complete dietary review of Japanese birds with special focus on molluscs

    Morii Y, Kitazawa M, Squires TE, Watanabe M, Watanabe Y, Saito T, Yamazaki D, Uchida A, Machida Y

    Scientific Data   8 ( 1 )   2021.1

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  • Structure-behaviour correlations between two genetically closely related snail species

    Le Ferrand H, Morii Y

    Royal Society Open Science   7   191471   2020.1

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  • The influence of deforestation on the land snail fauna of Kuromatsunai District, southwestern Hokkaido, Japan

    Morii Y

    VENUS   77   1 - 12   2019

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  • Activity of invasive slug Limax maximus in relation to climate conditions based on citizen’s observations and novel regularization based statistical approaches

    Morii Y, Ohkubo Y, Watanabe S

    Science of the Total Environment   637–638   1061 - 1068   2018

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  • Do the native rodents prey on land snails? : An experimental and quantitative study in Hokkaido, Japan

    Morii Y, Wakabayashi H

    Zoological Science   34   275 - 280   2017

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  • Citizen science reveals the present range and a potential native predator of the invasive slug Limax maximus Linnæus, 1758 in Hokkaido, Japan

    Morii Y, Nakano T

    BioInvasions Records   6   181 - 186   2017

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  • The distribution of the giant garden slug, Limax maximus (Pulmonata: Limacidae) recently introduced in Hokkaido Island, northern Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Jin T, Kyono M, Namikawa T, Sasaki K, Takaesu N, Watanabe S

    The Chiribotan   45   256 - 261   2016

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  • Parallel evolution of passive and active defence in land snails

    Morii Y, Prozorova L, Chiba S

    Scientific Reports   6   35600   2016

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  • Evidence of introgressive hybridization between the morphologically divergent land snails Ainohelix and Ezohelix

    Morii Y, Yokoyama J, Kawata M, Davison A, Chiba S

    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society   115   77 - 95   2015

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  • An endangered wasp, Bembix niponica F. Smith, 1873 observed at a nursery school in Hirosaki City, Aomori Pref., Japan (in Japanese)

    Eguchi K, Morii Y

    Celastrina   2025

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  • Phylogenetic analysis of Chinese Enidae: Inference from genome-wide analyses and morphological studies on three selected genera

    Ye B, Hirano T, Xia JF, Morii Y, Wu M, Chiba S

    Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation   1 ( 4 )   247 - 261   2024.8

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  • New Caledonian rovers and the historical biogeography of a hyper-diverse endemic lineage of South Pacific leaf beetles

    Platania L, Cardoso A, Anderson M, Fikacek M, Gauthier J, Hendrich L, Mille C, Morii Y, Reid CAM, Seidel M, Morgan-Richards M, Trewick S, Toussaint EFA, Gomez-Zurita J

    Systematic Entomolog   49   565 - 582   2024.2

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  • Uncovering overlooked diversity using molecular phylogenetic approach: a case of Japanese sphaeriid clams (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae)

    Saito T, Fujimoto K, Uchida S, Yamazaki D, Hirano T, Sano I, Ye B, Kagawa O, Shovon MS, Van Tu D, Morii Y, Prozorova L, Chiba S

    Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution   173   107508 - 107508   2022.5

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  • A comprehensive phylogeography of the widespread pond snail genus Radix revealed restricted colonisation due to niche conservatism

    Saito T, Hirano T, Bin Y, Prozorova L, Shovon MS, Do VT, Kimura K, Surenkhorloo P, Kameda Y, Morii Y, Fukuda H, Chiba S

    Ecology and Evolution   11 ( 24 )   18446 - 18459   2021.11

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  • The design and diversity of citizen’s environmental monitoring (in Japanese)

    Suzuki-Ohno Y, Morii Y

    Japanese Journal of Ecology   71   65 - 70   2021.7

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  • The terrestrial fauna and the northern most record of Meghimatium fruhstorferi (Philomycidae, Pulmonata) at Kuromatsunai District, Hokkaido Island, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y

    Bulletin of the Otaru Museum   33   13 - 18   2020

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  • Distribution records of three species of Leucochloridium (Trematoda: Leucochloridiidae) in Japan, with comments on their microtaxonomy and ecology

    Nakao M, Sasaki M, Waki T, Iwaki T, Morii Y, Yanagida K, Watanabe M, Tsuchitani Y, Saito T, Asakawa M

    Parasitology International   72   101936 - 101936   2019

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  • Molecular phylogeny of glacial relict species: a case of freshwater Valvatidae molluscs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in North and East Asia

    Saito T, Prozorova L, Sitnikova T, Surenkhorloo P, Hirano T, Morii Y, Chiba S

    Hydrobiologia   818   105 - 118   2018

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  • Phylogeography of freshwater planorbid snails reveals diversification patterns in Eurasian continental islands

    Saito T, Hirano T, Prozorova L, Do Van Tu, Sulikowska-Drozd A, Sitnikova T, Surenkhorloo P, Yamazaki D, Morii Y, Kameda Y, Fukuda H, Chiba S

    BMC Evolutionary Biology   18 ( 164 )   2018

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  • Species identification using DNA barcoding of the terrestrial planarian (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) in Rishiri Island, northern Hokkaido, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Uchida S

    Rishiri Studies   36   35 - 37   2017

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  • Single-gene speciation: mating and gene flow between mirror-image snails

    Richards P, Morii Y, Kimura K, Hirano T, Chiba S, Davison A

    Evolution Letters   1   282 - 291   2017

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  • Terrestrial molluscan fauna at limestone and non-limestone area in Nakatonbetsu, northern Hokkaido, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Yamakami R

    Edaphologia   101   1 - 6   2017

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  • A record of the ant species in the empty shells of land snail in Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Komatsu T

    Japanese Journal of Entomology (New Series)   20   1 - 5   2017

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  • A new record of Mirus andersonianus (Enidae, Pulmonata) at Kitami City, Hokkaido Island, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Watanabe M, Watanabe Y

    Bulletin of the Bihoro Museum   24   5 - 8   2017

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  • The fauna of terrestrial molluscs at Bihoro Town, Hokkaido Island, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Machida Y

    Bulletin of the Bihoro Museum   24   1 - 4   2017

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  • Terrestrial and freshwater molluscan fauna of Rishiri Island, northern Hokkaido, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y

    Rishiri Studies   35   35 - 41   2016

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  • A new record of Ezohelix gainesi (Camaenidae (Bradybaenidae), Pulmonata) at Notsuke Sandspit, eastern Hokkaido, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y

    Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum   38   1 - 3   2016

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  • The first record of the diving beetle Cybister japonicus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in Rishiri Island, northern Hokkaido, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Sato M, Ogawa N

    Rishiri Studies   34   37 - 39   2015

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  • The first record of the terrestrial planarian (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) in Rishiri Island, northern Hokkaido, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Uchida S

    Rishiri Studies   34   45 - 47   2015

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  • The first records of two species of the water scorpions, Ranatra chinensis and Ranatra unicolor (Hemiptera: Nepidae) in Rishiri Island, northern Hokkaido, Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Sato M, Ogawa N

    Rishiri Studies   34   41 - 43   2015

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  • Complete mitochondrial genome of an enigmatic dragonfly, Epiophlebia superstes (Odonata, Epiophlebiidae)

    Wang JF, Chen MY, Chaw SM, Morii Y, Yoshimura M, Sota T, Lin CP

    Mitochondrial DNA   0   1 - 2   2014

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  • An aberrant female of Vacciniina optilete sibirica (Staudinger, 1892) found at Katangli near Nogliki, northern Sakhalin in 2012 summer (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Ito T

    Butterflies (<i>S. fujisanus</i>)   63   44 - 45   2013

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  • Molecular phylogeographic analysis of East Asian cryptoperlan stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera, Peltoperlidae)

    Kato Y, Morii Y, Tojo K

    Limnology   14   179 - 194   2013

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  • A new record of Mirus andersonianus (Enidae, Pulmonata) at Nakatombetsu Town, Hokkaido Island, northern Japan (in Japanese)

    Morii Y

    Molluscan Diversity   3   80 - 82   2012

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  • The relationship between egg a aturation and emergence timing of two scopurid stoneflies (Scopura longa and S. montana), and their phylogenetic relationships including their relationship to other scopurid stoneflies (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Yoshii M, Kishimoto T, Tojo K

    Proceedings of Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan   45   15 - 16   2010

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  • Reporting the newly located habitat of a dipteromimid mayfly Dipteromimus flavipterus (Ephemeroptera, Dipteromimidae)

    Morii Y, Tojo K

    New Entomologist   58   79 - 82   2009

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  • Distribution profile of three headwater-specific insects in Shiojiri City (in Japanese)

    Morii Y, Tojo K

    The Bulletin of Shiojiri City Museum of Natural History   10   29 - 35   2008

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  • The first record for Nihonogomphus viridis in the Matsumoto Basin, Nagano, Japan (in Japanese)

    Eda S, Morii Y

    New Entomologist   56   7   2007

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  • Observing aquatic organisms with children using the school pool: an attempt at a junior high school in Azumino City, Nagano, Japan (in Japanese)

    Tanizawa T, Tojo K, Sueyoshi M, Morii Y, Higuchi A, Yoshida T

    New Entomologist   56   50 - 54   2007

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Books

  • 大陸と日本をつなぐ自然史

    千葉聡・後藤章夫・平野直人・鹿野秀一・土居秀幸・金谷弦・浦部美佐子・三浦収・森井悠太( Role: Contributor ,  食うものと食われるものの攻防がもたらす生き物の多様化)

    古今書院  2021.1 

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  • 生物学科,地球を行く

    日本生態学会北海道地区会( Role: Contributor)

    文一総合出版  2018.4 

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  • 社会的責任学入門―環境危機時代に適応する7つの教養

    東北大学生態適応 gCOE Team PEM( Role: Contributor)

    東北大学出版会  2011.6 

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Review Papers

  • 奨励賞受賞総説:進化学/生態学のモデル系としての陸産貝類

    森井悠太

    ちりぼたん   51   47 - 58   2021

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  • ナメクジの出現を予測する!―市民科学と最新統計の融合

    森井悠太

    academist Journal   2018

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  • 走って逃げ,昼夜問わず活動するカタツムリの発見

    森井悠太

    化学   79   73 - 73   2024.4

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  • 世にも奇妙なカタツムリ,エゾマイマイの生態と進化

    森井悠太

    科学   94 ( 5 )   391 - 397   2024.4

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  • 海外渡航記―ニュージーランドに見た多様性の価値

    森井悠太

    白眉センターだより   18   2020

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  • カタツムリが語る森の歴史―北海道黒松内町のブナ林に残された,100年前の森林伐採の影響

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    academist Journal   2019

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  • 食うものと食われるものの攻防をめぐる生き物の進化の世界

    森井悠太

    京都WEBマガジン   14   2019

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  • World Congress of Malacology 2016 への参加報告

    森井悠太

    ちりぼたん   48   89 - 91   2018

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  • Report of the FY2016 Program for Overseas Visits by Young Researchers: Spitsbergen Island, beautiful Arctic memories remembered at an old cafe in Kobe, Japan

    森井悠太

    ArCS Official Blog   2018

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  • Research in Spitsbergen Island, Norway

    森井悠太

    ArCS Official Blog   2017

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  • 天敵が生き物の多様化を促す?―カタツムリとオサムシの攻防をめぐる進化の謎に迫る

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    academist Journal   2016

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  • トワダカワゲラ類の進化生物学的研究

    森井悠太

    山岳科学総合研究所ニュースレター   30   4 - 4   2012

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Works

  • 個人ウェブサイトを参照|https://yutamorii.wordpress.com/gallery/

    2014.2.25

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Awards

  • 日本自然保護大賞 2019・入選

    2019.01

  • Best Presentation Award (Oral in English)

    2018.03

  • ブナセンター賞

    2016.02

  • Best Poster Award (Poster in English)

    2012.03

  • 日本貝類学会奨励賞

    2019.05

  • Excellent Poster Award (Poster in English)

    2016.11

  • 土壌動物学会若手研究者奨励賞

    2016.03

  • 生命科学会会長賞(博士論文最終試験)

    2014.02

  • サラヤ賞(ポスター賞)

    2014.02

  • サラヤ賞(ポスター賞)

    2012.03

  • 信州フィールド科学奨励賞II種(学位論文)

    2011.11

  • 最優秀賞(学位論文最終試験)

    2009.02

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Social Activities

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